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# rightsizing

«rightsizing» in Mova's school dictionary: **cutting jobs to make a company smaller, said to be the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (uncountable); verb (present participle of rightsize: rightsize, rightsizes, rightsized, rightsizing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, business jargon) cutting jobs to make a company smaller, said to be the "right" size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#m1)

2) making anything the right size for its use, such as rightsizing a computer system or a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used by managers to make job cuts sound sensible and good; business jargon, all regions. Like "downsizing", but softer still.

### examples

- The firm called it rightsizing, but forty people lost their jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x1)
- After the rightsizing, Mum's office had only six staff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x2)
- "Rightsizing? That means sacking people," muttered Grandpa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x3)
- They are rightsizing their house now the kids have left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x4)
- The company is rightsizing its cloud computers to save money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x5)
- Workers protested against the rightsizing plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x6)

### note

Stands for "cutting jobs". The word "right" makes it sound good but it is usually bad for the workers. Compare "downsizing", "restructuring", "streamlining".

### In the corpora

- ["Rightsizing" is spin for cutting jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/14/)
- ["Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rightsizing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.